Sunday, December 4, 2016

Project tank

I will go with the "Custom" style tank, and admit, it's not the "easy way" but hey, this project is not meant to last only a couple of month. In order to complicate things even more I decided to narrow the tank of something like 2 to 3 cm depending on the overall fitting. As with all project that I start I need a "point of no return" which usually consists in destroying something for later rebuild, fix, etc..
This time after having removed all the paint, it is the tank that I cut in halves.


I found quite a lot of rust in the tank, good opportunity to clean it and make it all shiny in the inside again.

 Some Chlorine and water, an old battery from a Harley Sportster and here we go.. Chemical reaction is instantaneous. This is after approximately 1 minute, the anode catches the first rust particles. Seems a very efficient way of removing rust.



After 3 Minutes it gets nasty. I say nasty because this looks like a disgusting soup. The reason is that quite a while ago I put some WD40 in the tank in order to stop the rust eating up my tank






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